Mine Accident Recalled
Monday last was the tenth anniversary of the occasion on which 12 men who were being lowered down No. 2 shaft at the Waihi mine shortly after 4 o’clock in the afternoon of Wednesday, July 26, 1933, had a miraculous escape from death when the cage in which they were descending broke away and hurtled several hundreds of feet down the shaft until it came to rest just above No. 13 level, about 1450 ft. below the surface. All twelve were injured, but none was critically hurt.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3295, 2 August 1943, Page 5
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91Mine Accident Recalled Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3295, 2 August 1943, Page 5
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